Jurka

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/dʒɝkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Jurka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 19K(measured from records)
  • SKSlovakia1 in 75K
  • PLPoland1 in 231K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Czechia (measured from records)

572 people

Sources
44 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jurka counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Jurka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia5721 in 19K572Jurka44
PL Poland1661 in 231K87Jurka20
US United States≈81 est.≈1 in 4.1MlistedJurka18
SK Slovakia731 in 75K73Jurka10
NL Netherlands261 in 665K26—1
NO Norway91 in 607K9—2

572 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Jurka is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Yurka, Jürka, Juerka

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Jürka

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Jürka

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Jurka is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, Tarupe, Pēterupes pieteka

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Jan Jurka, b. 1947Jaroslav Jurka, b. 1949Karl Jurka, b. 1952Jeroným František Jurka, b. 1963Jan Jurka, b. 1970Karel Jurka, b. 1973Ana Jurka, b. 1985Miroslav Jurka, b. 1987Jakub Jurka, b. 1999

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Ms Jurka,
InformalHi Jurka,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Jurka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—572#2,615
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—572#2,498
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202687—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—87#33,031
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202679—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—79#36,046
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)199573—
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200726#43,729
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—9#58,844
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Jurka?
A machine transcription gives /dʒɝkə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Jurka have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 572 people named Jurka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jurka.
Where is Jurka most common?
Jurka is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 19 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Jurka?
In Czechia, the national register counted 572 people named Jurka, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jurka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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